Try copying the command PMS uses to launch mencoder from the log and see what errors you're getting. Also: does your video have embedded ASS subtitles with built-in fonts? They'll cause the standard mencoder builds to segfault. If that's your problem, check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=231

shagrath wrote:the linux distribution has the major downside of not including the ffmpeg, mplayer and mencoder binaries... that's why half of the time, errors are due to old versions your system is using...ps3mediaserver needs builds from minimum mid-2008 to work correctly !if you are using Ubuntu based distribution, you can get mplayer/mencoder binaries from there: https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/ppa

PS: If anyone is skilled enough to make packaging of ps3mediaserver for any distributions out there (good luck), well I'll be happy to help :p

It's not quite according to debian policies, but a working ubuntu/debian package is available on my blog here: http://www.noteng.no/geekblog/?p=347It places all files in /opt/pms and adds this initscipt to /etc/init.d

Is there a way to make pms look for the configfiles in another location, like /etc/pms?Ideally configs should be in /etc, shellscript and tsmuxer in /usr/bin, jar files in /var/lib/pms and docs (README and FAQ) in /usr/share/doc or something like that...

also, I saw a bunch of licenses inside the jar, are all those used? and witch license for what?

BalleClorin wrote:Is there a way to make pms look for the configfiles in another location, like /etc/pms?Ideally configs should be in /etc, shellscript and tsmuxer in /usr/bin, jar files in /var/lib/pms and docs (README and FAQ) in /usr/share/doc or something like that...

The whole point of the package is to install PMS with apt-get (or similar). I totaly agree with you, but whenever I come across a great app that hasn't been packaged yet, I usually package it. I don't like the idea of having apps installed that apt know nothing about.My package will copy the pms-linux files to /opt/pms, ad a slightly modified version of PMS.sh as /usr/bin/pms and add a initscript for those who need to start at boot.

You were right. During my last set of builds, I was preparing with Medibuntu and PPAs. I reinstalled Karmic tonight and everything is working with build 383 from SVN using stock ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder.There are things about SUSE I prefer, but am glad I tried it this way.

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